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Ivy, you put my sentiments about QM2 in the right words!! I was struggling how to describe it, while reading this WONDERFUL thread (thank you so much, Sterkoder), when i read your post. She is not balanced very well. It looks like someone gave a severe hit at the bow during the building phase. The hull made a hop in direction of the stern, but the superstructure stayed in its place. Then they tried to repair the stern lines, but... As i have learned, the lower stern line has this form to minimize the rolling of the ship, but correct me, if i am wrong.
Her best advantage is that she motivated Sterkoder to get up early and present us such pretty pictures of Alesund. Of course my favourite is that one with "Lofoten leaving to Geiranger..."

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The old "Soap Factory" will be demolished to make way for another 21 flats in low-raised blocks:
This building has been more or less abandoned for the last 50 years or so, with occasional attempts at reviving it.

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An old friend has reappeared at it's traditional mooring place:
"SVINT" was built in 1949 as a means for the local newspaper to get their reporters quickly to the scene of any local news story, but became surplus to requirements in 1970. Now owned as a private pleasure craft by the son of the original skipper.

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An old wooden wear house that has been featured extensively on CVF, both by Sterkoder and myself in earlier postings.

Looking at the condition, I don't think this will be with us for very long, unless something is done quickly:
The SW wall, which is exposed to the strongest winter storms look badly weakened to me.

One more abandoned building is this small old residential house just behind the large "Slinningsbua":
Even with it's own monument in what goes for the garden. (Featured in "What place is this recently")

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Another place that has been featured both by Sterkoder and myself lately is Naustberge:
This was our summer playground and bathing place.

New houses is spouting all along the new road along the seaside and up on what used to be farmland in my childhood:

This one is very much in the traditional style from a hundred years ago or so:
But there were other in more modern style and in various stages of construction. Notably was that many were constructed with pre-fabricated concrete elements.

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And finally, Hessaskaret, on the North side of the island of Hessa. I grew up here, but there is nothing left of the old wooden buildings along the sea front.

What has come in place is this:

With one resident at the waterfront:

Badly overgrown from lack of activity:

The only somewhat recognizable feature is the old Ferry Wharf, which was the center of activity before the bridge to town was completed in 1953:
Although it has been joined up with the new development to the right.

PS> The view of the town has not changed all that much over the years. Details yes, but the over-all view is much the same.

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Great report, 'ombugge!
You used some of my exact spots when visiting your city for the QM2 arrival in July, and most interesting, it seems like there has been some changes even since I were there.
One sad thing I notice though is that "Slinningsbua" seems much more weatherbeaten and torn now than two months ago...

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Great report, 'ombugge!
You used some of my exact spots when visiting your city for the QM2 arrival in July, and most interesting, it seems like there has been some changes even since I were there.
One sad thing I notice though is that "Slinningsbua" seems much more weatherbeaten and torn now than two m onths ago...

As said, Hessa is a suburb in fast development. From a farm and fishing community with a few hundred inhabitants, no cars and no bridge connection to town until 1953, it is now bursting at the seams, with several thousand residents and more moving in every year.

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